Quotes with why

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  • Aldous Huxley Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Alan Dundes Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Theresa May Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.
    (2005)
    Theresa May
    British politician (1956 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bill Burr Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • John Donne Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Alfred A. Montapert Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Jacob Bronowski Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bob Weinstein Many people have vied to become the third Weinstein brother, and I'm not sure why, but that distinction only goes to one person - Quentin Tarantino.
    Bob Weinstein
    American film producer (1954 - )
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  • Caroline Dhavernas Maybe because she doesn't try so hard to seduce and impress, I guess that's why some guys fell for her. Because she's so different and crazy and we all like a little bit of that in our life.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Queen Victoria Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ''Why not?'' and the other, ''Why bother?''
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Bernard Berenson Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her?
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Albert Bandura Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.
    Albert Bandura
    Canadian-American psychologist (1925 - )
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  • Kofi Annan More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
    Faceboek (2016)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Benny Blanco Most of the time when people work with an artist, they don't give them what they need for the future, they give them what their last album sounded like. So it's like, 'Oh, One Republic needs a song, why don't we send them 10 that sound like 'Apologize?'
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
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